INEC Extends Voting into Sunday

INEC Extends Voting into Sunday

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended voting during the Presidential and National Elections to Sunday in areas where there were hitches.

While addressing the press at the Media Centre of the National Collation Centre in Abuja, the Chairman of INEC Committee on Information and Voters Education, Mr. Chris Iyimoga, said with the hitches in some parts of the country, there was no way the Presidential and National Assembly Elections could be concluded today (Saturday). He said:

“Each REC has been informed to conduct election on Sunday where there are hitches with accreditation or voting. I cannot say exactly the number of states affected but the problems are not in all the states.”

Other National Commissioners  at the briefing were Ishmael Igbani; Muhammadu Wali; Engr. Nuru Yakubu; and Gladys Nwafor.

On his part, National Commissioner Igbani said he could not still exactly say what went wrong in Otuoke, Bayelsa State which led to the delay in the accreditation of President Goodluck Jonathan and First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan.

 “No one can really say what went wrong in Otuoke but the machine or the card readers could not capture the fingerprints of the President and the First Lady. Where such a situation, we had to use manual system.”

On the hacking of INEC website, Commissioner Nuru Yakubu said: “We have lifted the contents on our website and relocated to other site.”